Is Occupy Wall Street the left's Tea Party?

icedancer2theend said:
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Labor unions, communists, “community organizers,” socialists, and anti-capitalist agitators have all joined together to “Occupy Wall Street” and protest against “greed,” corporations, and bankers. But despite efforts to portray the movement as “leaderless” or “grassroots,” it is becoming obvious that there is much more going on behind the scenes than meets the eye.

Billionaire financier George Soros’ fingerprints, for example, have been all over the anti-Wall Street campaign from the very beginning. And this week, the infamous hedge-fund boss publicly announced his sympathy for the protesters and their complaints about bailouts — despite the fact that he lobbied for even greater unconstitutional handouts to bankers in 2009.

“Actually I can understand their sentiment, frankly,” he told reporters while announcing a large donation to the United Nations. “I can sympathize with their grievances.”

But Soros’ support for the protesters goes far beyond his tepid public statements. In fact, the original call to “Occupy Wall Street” came from the magazine AdBusters, an “anti-consumerist” publication financed by, among other sources, the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.

Other Soros-backed outfits promoting big government — some with myriad ties to the Obama administration — are also publicly driving the occupation campaign. MoveOn.org, for instance, has received millions of dollars from the billionaire banker. And now, the group is urging its supporters to join the Occupy Wall Street movement as well.


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SmarterThanYou said:
how do you figure?
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Suddenly SmarterThanFew decides that people need to back up what they say?

Let's visually compare the Wall Street protesters' numbers to SmarterThanFew's militia:



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SmarterThanFew's militia:


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Jarod said:
They call themselves the 99%.

They seem to be made up of very liberal anti-establishment activists that are forming into a movement. This could get interesting.
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I hope not. I mean I have no problem with the villains on Wall Street responsible for the 08 investment banking crises being held accountable but I'm tired of the extremes. I'm sick to death of partisan politics and the politics of personal destruction. I want to see things get done and I'm fed up with partisan obstructionism whether it's from the left or the right.
 
Yurt said:
wallbaggers or streetbaggers?

they are nothing like the tea party. from what i've seen, these are people who love to protest because protesting is cool. they want to be like their parents in the 60's and 70's. if they really cared about change, go protest the executive branch or the legislative branch. their protest of wall street now makes little sense and will accomplish nothing.
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LOL I love it. How about Wallstreeters or Street Beggers?
 
Jarod said:
All True, but is it a simuar movement, more organic and on the left, but say, the Left's answer.

The Tea Party was created by special interests. The 99% seems to be more organic.
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They are liberal and conservative. The Tea Party has evolved into a very conservative organization, in my opinion.
 
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